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* Souichiro, Kyoko's late husband, from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''. She was very much in love with him, and an unwillingness to disrespect his memory is the major roadblock for [[Romancing the Widow|Kyoko and Godai's relationship.]]
* Kikyo from ''[[Inuyasha]]''. Her apparent betrayal is a primary source of Inuyasha's initial [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|misanthropy]], and his [[Reincarnation Romance|attraction to Kagome]] initially stems from her [[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest|resemblance to Kikyo.]] And then she gets [[Damaged Soul|resurrected]] and it becomes a full-blown [[Love Triangle]].
* Casca from ''[[Berserk]]'' is this to Guts, and is an interesting zigzagged case throughout. She did not die, but was nonetheless "lost" via a brutal [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] ordeal that left her [[Go Mad
* Kye Wol Hyang from [[Shin Angyo Onshi]], who died before the start of the series, but her death was the main reason Munsu was able to fight the big bad, or had the motivation to endure months and years of travel alone, plotting his revenge against Aji Tae. While he didn't stay chaste after her death (A couple of encounters and just at the beginning of the series), he never took another lover {{spoiler|and in the end, he reunited with her in the afterlife}}
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* Pretty much any female character in anything by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
* The Ballad ''Lenore'' (1773) by Gottfried August Bürger, which is one of the German ballads translated into English most often and was highly influential on various English-speaking writers besides starting a fashion for gothic ballads in Germany, inverts the pattern: The eponymous heroine is obsessed with her sweetheart Wilhelm, who went off into the [[Seven Years' War]] and did not return. She begins to quarrel with God, causing her mother to chide her for her blasphemy. But then one night the dead fiancé returns and asks Lenore to mount up on his horse with him...
* Cathy Earnshaw in the second half of ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]''
* Lily Potter in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, though not to her son Harry... {{spoiler|but to Snape, her [[Stalker with a Crush]] ''and'' [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]}}.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Jennifer Sisko in ''[[Star Trek:
* In Season Three of the recent BBC series ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' Robin Hood may have got another love interest in the form of [[Creator's Pet|Kate]] but the final scene of the final episode affirmed Maid Marian's status as The One True Love.
** However, given the astonishing [[Angst? What Angst?|lack of Angst]] from Robin after her death, it is arguable that her demise did more for the [[Character Development]] of Guy of Gisborne (her killer, who has a [[Heel Face Turn]]) than it did for Robin. And all things considered, Marian's death had very little effect on the main storyline of season three in which various characters vie for the position of Sheriff of Nottingham. [[Seasonal Rot|The BBC really didn't think this one through...]]
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